Grants awarded

You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.

We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated March 2025). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.

Show filter

Showing 301-320 of 476 results.

Grant recipient

On the ground conservation work in the trust's wildlife reserves

Towards work on the Perthshire wildlife reserves and on the Largiebaan restoration project.

$256,838

2018

1 year

Field book project - South America

To digitize travellers’ and naturalists’ field manuscripts on South America from 1800 to 2000 and make them freely available online.

$511,200

2015

3 years

National Anthropological Archives

To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and make it freely available online.

$1,000,000

2013

3 years

Achieving open access through copyright reform

To support research, publication and advocacy for global copyright reform to provide greater access to academic research.

$165,000

2019

2 years

Core support

$22,000

2023

1 year

Strategic influence on digital policy making in the EU

To set up and support a strategic advocacy organization that will increase the ability of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy-making in the European Union.

$1,177,050

2020

4 years

MBA programme

To create an international executive MBA programme.

$4,336,000

2002

1 year

Imperial College mathematics summer school

To improve state school students’ maths skills through a summer school programme at Imperial College.

$139,365

2006

1 year

Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers

To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.

$3,600,000

2018

4 years

Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers II

To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.

$1,800,000

2020

2 years

Rainforest seed conservation

To develop techniques for storing seeds not suitable for traditional seed preservation methods.

$600,000

2012

5 years

Digitising the National Farm Survey

To digitize the records of the National Farm Survey of England and Wales (1941-1943), and make them freely available online, together with a tool that makes each farm searchable.

$2,553,878

2023

3 years

Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund

To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.

$6,000,000

2024

5 years

Advancing Open Access

$500,000

2022

3 years

To support the Wildlife Justice Commission’s (WJC’s) core operations.

To support WJC’s mission to support the investigation and prosecution of high-level wildlife crime cases.

$1,190,000

2021

5 years

Ecosystem connectivity in threatened South American landscapes

To work with local partners to conserve and manage threatened high-biodiversity areas.

$1,800,000

2014

3 years

The Age of Extinction series

To support the Age of Extinction series, a reporting project that aims to draw attention to the global biodiversity crisis.

$900,000

2021

3 years

Influencing public policy on climate change

To support work on global climate change agreements.

$176,593

2007

1 year

Acquisition of six properties in Argentina and Chile

To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes and advance biodiversity conservation.

$15,100,000

2019

5 years

Patagonia National Park

To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Patagonia Park in Chile.

$3,370,000

2016

2 years